Synonyms for colorectal
ˌkoʊ ləˈrɛk tlcol·orec·tal

Princeton's WordNet

1. colorectaladjective

   relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum

   "most colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps"

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1. List of paraphrases for "colorectal":

   rectum

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1. Robert Bresalier:

   Right now, the biggest impact we can have – and relevant to this discussion — is screening. So if you haven’t been screened and you’re in that age relevant group, you should get screened. And that clearly has a larger impact, and the biggest impact we can do right now in terms of influencing death of colorectal cancer.

2. Christine Friedenreich:

   This study provides some new evidence that watching TV after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer may decrease overall survival as well as survival associated with colon cancer diagnosis.

3. Qi Sun:

   If you are really looking into whole-grain consumption with other diseases, stroke, heart disease and colorectal cancer, whole grains are consistently associated with [a] lower risk of those diseases.

4. Rebecca Siegel:

   But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.

5. William Dahut:

   We’re not trying to blame anybody for their cancer diagnosis, but when you see something occurring in a short period of time, it’s more likely something external to the patient that’s driving that, and it’s hard not to at least think – when you have something like colorectal cancer – that something diet-related is not impossible.